Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-12-27
NORTH CAROLINA.
A NYw POINT MADE IN A TRIAL RE-
FORK A MAGrsTRAiE.
The Observation Of CHRISTMAS Railroad
ews-1nereasing the Supreme Court
Personal Notes.
Especial telegram to tho Di,pa,cn.l


RALEIGH, n. c., December 90
Though Christmas-eve was very un-
promising and marked by a storm OF
wind and rain, yet the great festalday
was fac. Most OF the State west OF
Goldsboro' was covered with snow, which
fell Saturday night Here the snow was
not deep, and quickly disappeared be-
meath the influences OF higher tempera-
ture and sunshine. The observance of
Christmas day was very quiet At all of
the State charitable institutions the
inmates were given the customary dinner,
and the convicts, wherever they might
be, were treated to n similar feast.
II is stated here to-day that work be-
gins New-Year's Day on the extension OF
the Abemarle and Raleigh railway from
Springhope, Nash county, TO Wakefield,
Wake county. This appears to settle the
question as 10 the roads coming 10
Raleigh. Wakefield is on the direct line.
This road will get heavy Raleigh traffic
in both directions.
A new point has been made in trial
of case before u magistrate. The bat
ter invited another magistrate TO sit with
him in hearing the case The latter took
a different view of the matter from the
former. 1t is contonded that such a dis
agreement necessarily throws the matter
into the Superior Court. and that in such
case the second magistrate has equal
powers with the first. IL comes up IN
the case of the men arrested on charge
OF burning their stores in Catawba county
TO secure insurance.
The new steamer Mantco, of the Old
Dominion Line, is completed and Will
make her first trip 10 Newberne about
January LIST. Her special feature Is her
truck carrying capacity. The trucking
business at Newherne last season was
remunerativc, and next season will be
more extensive than ever before. That
market is over two weeks earlier than
Norfolk.
A great number of Photographic views
OF the North Carolina fisheries have just
been taken, under the direction OF Mr.
Stephen G.. Worth, for the National
Museum. All the varieties of fishing
craft have likewise been photographed.
Inquiry Of both Democratic and Re
publican politicians III regard to the
matter OF the increase Of the number OF
Supreme Court justices from three TO five
elects such responses that the increase is
u certainty. There Will be, IT seems, no
objection to it. but both parties will sup
port IT.
Ex-Coneressman Kitchen, who, in the
Scotland Neck DcmOcrdt. has for year
or more very bitterly assailed President
Clc> I'd, has retired from editorial
work nd the tone OF that paper will be
change. 1t attracted attention for no
other reason than these attacks, and was
the only Democratic paper III the state
whir" made them.
A copy Of the official roster of North
Carolina troops in the war with Mexico
has zen filed in the Office of every clerk
Of the Superior Cont in the State by
the AdjutantGcneral.
A big anti-reycnue movement IS on
foot in this State, and the first breath of
the storm has already agitated the revc-
nue. officers. North CarOlinlans, like
Virginians. are resclute in this matter,
and have set their faces towards the
morning.
The Republican organ here, edited by
the chairman Of the "new Executive
Committee of that party. attacks the
Republican Senate for its delay IN con
firming Mr.. Lamar as a Justice OF the
Supreme Court, and says: The South
Is recognized as a part OF the Govern
ment for most purposes, and 1t IS nigh
time that all Determinations against her
citizens had ceased TO obtain. 1t Is time
II have done with sectiOnalism.
The same paper announces that the
campaign OF that party has already he.
Gun in this State. Democrats are warned
in time.
In private letter to Rev. DIR. Thomas
II. Pritchard Rev. DIR. Matthew l..
Yates. Baptist missionary to China, says
he has had a slight stroke Of paralysis.
The letter is from Shanghai and bears
date November 9th DR.. Yates has I'M
proved since the attack, which is compli-
Gated with a heart trouble which the
venerable missionary thinks mainly due
to indigestion. He will on the oth OF
January begin his SEVENTEEN year. For
forty.one years he has been a missionary
10 China. He is an ardent sportsman
and saws that if his physicians will per
NIT him to hunt lie believes 1t Will I'M
prove his health. -,
in an item about the promotion OF MIR.
John T.. Ray to the position of principal
of the Colorado State Institution for the
Deaf, Dumb, and Blind the wires made
me say the "colored institution. Mr.
Ray was for years a teacher in the STATE
institution here, and for two years was
secretary of the Baptist Board of Mis-
sions at Raleigh. Two months ago he
went out 10 Colorado rs teacher III the
institution named and now succeeds Mr.
David c. Dudley. another Raleigh man
as its head. Both Dudley and Ray are
widely known in North Carolina.
News was received this afternoon thai
man was killed this morning on TIT
line OF the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley
Captain W. J. Street, one OF the pro
prietors of the Gregory Hotel, at Colds
boro'. las died after II few days illness
He was buried at Newberne.
in Richmond county a white maj
named Ledbetter cut the throat OF
negro woman Of i'll repute named Pow
ell. Ledbetter has escaped.
A drunken white man named Franz
Deans was run over and killed by tran
Yesterday in the suburbs OF Goldsboro
Ills body was cut to pieces by the en-
cine. which struck him as be was walk
inc on the track. He leaves a wido'
and several children.
In the Giersch case in Wake Superlo
Court last August Judge James II. Mel
rimou decided that beer and wine wer
not spirituous liquors in the reading c
the statute. This decision WAS reverse
by the Supreme Court Associate-Ju'
tice Mcrrimon, brother OF Judge Merr
mon. delivering the opinion. The ma
Ter has excited much comment, and
fresh sensation is how caused by pul
LEGATION in the Asheville Citizen by Judg
Merrimon making a severe attack upo
Justice Nernmon's decision III the cas-
Womauktud.